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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 2h

White House Invades Bluesky to Troll, Predictably Gets Mass Blocked https://gizmodo.com/white-house-blocked-on-bluesky-2000674092

White House Invades Bluesky to Troll, Predictably Gets Mass Blocked

The platform's immune system kicked in when a large number of accounts associated with Donald Trump sought attention there.

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D. Merrill @terebifunhouse.bsky.social · 3h

Great peace treaty there, Trumpy, real fine work, you despicable failure

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6h

BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 4h

Where can I buy this, chat?

Photo of a cap with the text: hello, 1am fleeing the American century of humiliation. Can you show me where to buy White Monster Energy Drinks?

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 4h

In a rare show of courtesy, police departments all over the US reported that the mass protests on October 18th were overwhelmingly peaceful and posted thank you messages for protestors. Out of millions of people, only MAGA agitators were arrested. ICE stayed away due to the crowd size. #3E #NoKings

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bundgaardf.bsky.social @bundgaardf.bsky.social · 1d

I am living for the sumo wrestlers having fun playing tourists while preparing for the sumo tournament in London

Sumo wrestlers having fun posing with Stonehenge

Sumo wrestlers posing like The Beatles on Abbey Road

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NPR @npr.org · 7h

Roman Surovtsev is like many others who were detained at their regularly scheduled ICE check-ins. What makes his case different is that his wife has marshalled a team of lawyers on his behalf.

ICE tried to send one immigrant to a country he never lived in. Then he lawyered up.

Roman Surovtsev is like many others who were detained at their regularly scheduled ICE check-ins. What makes his case different is that his wife has marshalled a team of lawyers on his behalf.

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Rachel Merrill is at Thought Bubble Table A-9 @ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 6h

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SID aka Walt 🍁🇨🇦 #ElbowsUp @neoengel.bsky.social · 7h

True story:

Gramma insisted I go to church (where youth leaders told me KISS was satanic, and they handed out those hateful Chick Tracts).

When I turned 12 gramma told me I was at 'age of responsibility', a week later I asked mom if I can stop going to church.

Mom said yes, gramma was furious.😎

LLFella 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @lizafella.bsky.social · 9h

Side door of a church in Montreal. On it is written in English, "No child should be forced to go to church"

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SID aka Walt 🍁🇨🇦 #ElbowsUp @neoengel.bsky.social · 7h

True story:

Gramma insisted I go to church (where youth leaders told me KISS was satanic, and they handed out those hateful Chick Tracts).

When I turned 12 gramma told me I was at 'age of responsibility', a week later I asked mom if I can stop going to church.

Mom said yes, gramma was furious.😎

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LLFella 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @lizafella.bsky.social · 9h

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 9h

Do you think that breaking the boycott will make you welcome in the United States? Think again.
Finger printed, photographed and vehicles thoroughly searched. You better hope you don't have a conviction for smoking marijuana when you were 18.

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Canadian snowbirds fingerprinted and photographed at U.S. border as part of new requirement | CBC News

Several Canadian snowbirds reported they were fingerprinted and photographed at the U.S. border this month when registering for their winter stay, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told C...

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 8h

It's amazing that these guys don't recognize that being an aggro asshole when surrounded by literally hundreds of people who hate them is risky behavior.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 11h

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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SID aka Walt 🍁🇨🇦 #ElbowsUp @neoengel.bsky.social · 7h

Something for folks in #WaterlooRegion looking for some nifty stuff for Halloween.

This is run by cool creator I know in town, and it's free admission. 😎

Albert McCormick Community Centre
500 Parkside Dr. Waterloo
11a-5p today (it also ran yesterday)

www.dublevewands.com/witchy-market/

Witchy Market

Saturday, October 18th—10:00am-6:00pmSunday, October 19th—11:00am-5:00pm 500 Parkside DrAlbert McCormick Community CentreWaterloo ON N2L 5J4 This will be the fourth Witchy Market. Welcome back for …

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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 10h

Why travel to the United States? It’s not safe to go there. There are plenty of tropical or semitropical destinations where one can escape Canadian winters.

Canadian snowbirds fingerprinted and photographed at U.S. border as part of new requirement | CBC News

Several Canadian snowbirds reported they were fingerprinted and photographed at the U.S. border this month when registering for their winter stay, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told C...

www.cbc.ca

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 23h

real talk: the two awards I deeply desire are the Stephen Leacock Medal For Humour and the Order of Canada. I'm never gonna win the Leacock medal (I write the wrong kind of stuff), but one time a book where I was thanked in the acknowledgements was shortlisted. Thisclose.

garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 1d

A national treasure.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

would be very fun to make all of trumps regimes bluesky accounts the most blocked accounts on bluesky

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d

Turn off your Face ID and Touch ID if you are taking your phones to the protests. Keep it in airplane mode and use encrypted apps where possible. Protect yourself.

#3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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Andrew Gurudata @gurudata.bsky.social · 1d

Citizen. With passport. Not illegal immigrant. Not criminal. Just a US citizen they decided didn't look right. Who voted for that?

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SID aka Walt 🍁🇨🇦 #ElbowsUp @neoengel.bsky.social · 23h

Social Media, defined:

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 1d

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "WHY WOULD WE LISTEN TO AN EXPERT INSTEAD OF A DUMB MOTHERFUCKER WHO TALKS REALLY LOUD"

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Andrew Gurudata @gurudata.bsky.social · 1d

Make of this what you will...

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 1d

Mark Carney said that the Netanyahu government’s actions “were explicitly designed to end any possibility of a State of Palestine, violating the UN charter and going against Canadian government policy since 1947.”

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in Nov. 2024.

Mark Carney says Benjamin Netanyahu would be arrested if he came to Canada

Prime Minister Mark Carney says that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be arrested if he travelled to Canada.

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CTV News Kitchener @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social · 1d

Two jewelry swap attempts in Kitchener

Waterloo Regional Police are looking to identify suspects involved in two separate jewelry swap incidents in Kitchener on Friday.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

They don't think they're public servants.

They think they're kings, princes, dukes, and barons. They control the government, and that makes them royalty, and that means our money should be used to buy them planes and gold-plated toys and gilded ballrooms

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

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